2020 Flock Life

[WhoDatChick]

Some videos! We put the chicks that were bigger and almost all feathered in a newish cage, plus a video of the babies!

Oh my... that little tiny one going bottoms up in the food

 

[WhoDatChick]

Hello, thank you so much for the invite!
I started owning button quail at 11, then moved up to coturnix quail at 13.
I currently own 3 coturnix quail, Conra, Miah, and Mars, with a possible new addition soon. As of posting this I actually just redid their home.
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Here's Mars (Reddish coloring) and Miah (Natural/pharaoh coloring) curious about the camera.
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Here's Conra displaying her great camouflage skills!
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Here's the trio now all curious about the camera.
(Conra in the back, Miah and Mars in the front.)
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Here's Mars peeping his head out to check out what's going on.
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Conra, again!
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And finally.. a good view of their habitat with them enjoying it.
Thank you for reading, I hope everyone enjoys my flock.

This is very nice! They are sooooo cute!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Maple

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I love your photo shoots

 

[Jedstar]

Where are you

Pretty easy to mix them up especially with how huge the one on the right is honestly it’s a monster Silkie.

I’m used to hatching bantam silkies but these are USA line ones so they’re twice the size!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

I love your photo shoots

Thankyou!

Where are you

I’m in the UK

 

[Jedstar]

Oh okay.cold there

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Good morning/ evening everyone!

 

[Megin Tennessee]

Hello and welcome to my chat thread
I’m making another one of these because the last one Went a bit silent and I was starting to talk to myself... Am I really that boring??

Allow me to introduce myself.
I live in Ireland.
I have 30 chickens, 27 Brahmas, blue buff columbian, golden partridge, blue partridge and lemon Pyle are their colours, I could go through them all individually but I wouldn’t want to bore you..,1 RIR, 1 buff Orpington and 1 buff Orpington mix.
only had around 10 chickens at the beginning of last year but I became a bit of a Hatchaholic.. it was around 50 at one stage ...
The plan was to breed them but they ended up getting a respiratory illness so now I’ve decided to keep them as a closed flock. Which is kinda what I was going to do anyways because no one was buying the roosters and I just had so many.
15 ducks, the colours are magpie, Rouen, khaki and a few mixed. 10 Guineas, 2 cocker dogs, 2 rabbits 2 cats View attachment 2041209
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some of my favourite hobbies other then caring for animals are garden design, interior design, painting and sculpting...

My cottage garden.
the garden consists of plants that attract butterflies and bees such as butterfly bush/ buddleia , sedum, delphinium, Ligularia dentata, red and yellow broom, sunflowers, petunias, bleeding hearts, montbretia and a few others
that I forget the names of..
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there are also around 30 roses in there and there’s a few trees such as blue spruce, blue cedar, holly and junipers.
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this next one is the patio.
it consists of different types of exotic plants like windmill palm, canary island date palm, musa basjoo the hardy banana... yes I grow bananas and palm trees here in Ireland.. bamboo, different types of hosta’s, Japanese maples, phormiums, cordylines, musella lasiocarpa, calla lily, ligularia, gunnera, fatsia japonica,Miscanthus sinensis Zebrinus, passion vine, silver spear, canna lily and different types of coleus

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More photos of the cottage garden
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I like to grow sunflowers every year because they are beautiful plants, they’re great for wildlife and they put a smile on everyone’s face.
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these are some of my oil paintings..
I just recently started using oil paints..
cow
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Our golden partridge Brahma rooster that goes by the name Prince
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two rabbits enjoying their breakfast
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Maltese dog
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so... I’ve introduced myself.
now it’s your turn

Beautiful! All around! Your gardens are gorgeous and all the animals look so happy and loved!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Oh ma ga! The little yellow butterball looks like a peep

One of my son's Lakeshore Eggers! It's so stinkin cute!!!

 

[MysticUniKitty]

Anyone seen this kinda behavior before? Are they just bonding? I don't think Toasted ever acted this way before.

Also one of my Partridge Cochin had massive pasty butt this morning and it's acting a little weak. It's sleeping on my chest now.